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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1969
Page
27
An Ariani Afghan Airways Boeing 727 with 63 aboard crashed in thick fog while landing at Gatwick. The jet struck a two story house and exploded in a field. police report 50 killed, including two inside the house.
Rescue workers and police sifted through wreckage after a terrorist attack at Gatwick. Fifteen people survived. Beverly Jones, 16 months, was found alive, while her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Jones, were killed.
A South Vietnamese ranger questioned a cigar-smoking villager about enemy movements in the An Hoa valley, about 20 miles southwest of Da Nang. Rangers and American forces have been conducting extensive operations in the area.
An interview with Werner von Penncentral jokes about a rail space program aiming to whisk travelers from New York to Washington in three hours by 1972. He cites hazards, ticket systems, and unknown human effects, while predicting future wide-range rail journeys for next generations.
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